09-02-2017, 04:53 AM
Here's a comment from a Houston relief organizer about the Red Cross response, so far:
Late Tuesday, Harris County Judge Ed Emmett announced that a 10,000-bed Harris County shelter was opening at NRG Park that would accommodate families as well as their pets.
Emmett said the shelter was needed both because the George R. Brown Convention Center is overflowing with people displaced by historic flooding, and also because of logistical problems and delays he had observed working with the Red Cross at shelters around town.
"I don't want to throw anybody under the bus but the Red Cross, they couldn't get anything done," Emmett said.
http://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/hou...160061.php
While the Cajun Navy* drove their pickup trucks with flat bottom boats in tow from New Orleans, and ferried victims and supplies across Houston flood waters, the Red Cross had supply trucks still waiting in Dallas.
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cajun_Navy
The Donner Party really wasn't that great of a party, was it?
Late Tuesday, Harris County Judge Ed Emmett announced that a 10,000-bed Harris County shelter was opening at NRG Park that would accommodate families as well as their pets.
Emmett said the shelter was needed both because the George R. Brown Convention Center is overflowing with people displaced by historic flooding, and also because of logistical problems and delays he had observed working with the Red Cross at shelters around town.
"I don't want to throw anybody under the bus but the Red Cross, they couldn't get anything done," Emmett said.
http://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/hou...160061.php
While the Cajun Navy* drove their pickup trucks with flat bottom boats in tow from New Orleans, and ferried victims and supplies across Houston flood waters, the Red Cross had supply trucks still waiting in Dallas.
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cajun_Navy
The Donner Party really wasn't that great of a party, was it?
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